The state of food and agriculture 2002 (Record no. 8585)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
ISBN 9251047626
Terms of availability TZS 56,840/=
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency MUL
Language of cataloging eng
Transcribing agency MUL
Description conventions AACR
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 338.19 UNI
110 ## - MAIN ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME
Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The state of food and agriculture 2002
Statement of responsibility, etc / Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication Rome :
Name of publisher FAO,
Year of publication c2002.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Number of Pages xxi, 227 p. :
Other physical details col. ill. ;
Dimensions 24 cm.
490 ## - Series Statement
Series Statement FAO agriculture series
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note <br/>"Included in this issue is the SOFA 2002 CD-ROM, containing time series data for 150 countries, country groups and regions in English, French and Spanish, together with FAOSTAT TS software to ensure easy access and use"--Page 4 of cover
505 ## - Formatted Contents
Formatted contents note Foreword v <br/>Glossary xvii <br/>Explanatory note xx <br/>PART I World review <br/>Current Agricultural Situation - Facts and Figures<br/>3 (35)<br/>Trends in undernourishment<br/>3 (3)<br/>Crop and livestock production<br/>6 (5)<br/>Food shortages and emergencies<br/>11 (3)<br/>World cereal supply situation<br/>14 (3)<br/>External assistance to agriculture<br/>17 (3)<br/>Food aid flows<br/>20 (3)<br/>Commodity price trends<br/>23 (6)<br/>Fisheries: production, disposition and trade<br/>29 (4)<br/>Production and trade of forest products<br/>33 (5)<br/>The Global Economy and Agriculture<br/>38 (13)<br/>World economic environment<br/>38 (13)<br/>World trade and commodity prices<br/>39 (3)<br/>Implications of the Fourth World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference for agriculture<br/>42 (6)<br/>Notes<br/>48 (3)<br/>PART II Regional review <br/>Africa<br/>51 (21)<br/>Regional overview<br/>51 (6)<br/>General economic performance<br/>51 (3)<br/>Agricultural performance<br/>54 (3)<br/>Women farmers' productivity in sub-Saharan Africa<br/>57 (8)<br/>Introduction<br/>57 (1)<br/>The role and importance of women farmers<br/>57 (5)<br/>Gender differentials in agricultural productivity and constraints facing women farmers<br/>62 (2)<br/>Conclusion and policy implications<br/>64 (1)<br/>Tsetse and trypanosomiasis control<br/>65 (7)<br/>Introduction<br/>65 (1)<br/>The direct impact of trypanosomiasis<br/>65 (1)<br/>The indirect impacts of the disease<br/>66 (2)<br/>Cost-benefit ratios for tsetse control<br/>68 (1)<br/>Conclusion<br/>69 (3)<br/>Asia and the Pacific<br/>72 (24)<br/>Regional overview<br/>72 (5)<br/>General economic performance<br/>72 (1)<br/>Agricultural performance<br/>73 (4)<br/>China's accession to the World Trade Organization and implications for Chinese agricultural policies<br/>77 (19)<br/>The changing role of agriculture in the Chinese economy<br/>78 (2)<br/>Agricultural policy in the reform period<br/>80 (4)<br/>China's WTO accession commitments and provisions related to agriculture<br/>84 (3)<br/>Recent policy shifts and likely changes as a result of accession to the WTO<br/>87 (8)<br/>Conclusions<br/>95 (1)<br/>Latin America and the Caribbean<br/>96 (26)<br/>Regional overview<br/>96 (5)<br/>General economic performance<br/>96 (1)<br/>Recent agricultural performance<br/>97 (4)<br/>Changing patterns in agricultural trade<br/>101 (21)<br/>Growing importance of agricultural trade relative to production<br/>101 (2)<br/>Declining role of agriculture in total merchandise trade<br/>103 (1)<br/>Stable regional share in world agricultural trade<br/>104 (1)<br/>Diversified product composition of agricultural trade<br/>104 (6)<br/>Geographic diversification of markets<br/>110 (1)<br/>Agricultural trade balances and their economic significance<br/>111 (6)<br/>The price factor<br/>117 (2)<br/>Conclusions<br/>119 (3)<br/>Near East and North Africa<br/>122 (19)<br/>Regional overview<br/>122 (7)<br/>General economic performance<br/>122 (1)<br/>Agricultural performance<br/>123 (6)<br/>Climate variability, aridity and vulnerability to drought<br/>129 (12)<br/>Drought -- a structurally recurrent phenomenon in the region<br/>130 (3)<br/>Water and land resource issues<br/>133 (1)<br/>Impact of recent droughts on crop and livestock production<br/>134 (1)<br/>Impact on population livelihood, household income and rural poverty<br/>134 (2)<br/>Impact on the environment<br/>136 (1)<br/>Government measures for drought prevention and relief of affected groups<br/>137 (2)<br/>From reactive crisis management to proactive risk management in agriculture<br/>139 (2)<br/>Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States<br/>141 (14)<br/>Regional overview<br/>141 (3)<br/>Macroeconomic trends and agricultural performance<br/>141 (3)<br/>Land and farms in Central and Eastern Europe and the CIS in the period of central planning<br/>144 (1)<br/>Land and farm reform in Central and Eastern European and CIS countries<br/>145 (10)<br/>The establishment of clear and secure rights of land tenure<br/>147 (3)<br/>The creation of farms with an efficient ownership and management structure<br/>150 (1)<br/>The formation of a class of mid-sized commercial farms<br/>151 (2)<br/>Conclusions<br/>153 (2)<br/>Developed Market Economies<br/>155 (20)<br/>Overview<br/>155 (20)<br/>General economic performance<br/>155 (1)<br/>Agricultural performance<br/>155 (5)<br/>Agricultural policy changes<br/>160 (4)<br/>Notes<br/>164 (11)<br/>PART III Agriculture and global public goods ten years after the Earth Summit <br/>The Role of Agriculture and Land in the Provision of Global Public Goods<br/>175 (14)<br/>Introduction<br/>175 (1)<br/>Economic concept of local and global public goods<br/>176 (1)<br/>Public goods associated with the land-cluster chapters of Agenda 21<br/>177 (1)<br/>Progress in the provision of global public goods since Rio-92<br/>178 (4)<br/>Financing global public goods<br/>182 (2)<br/>The need to increase international financial cooperation for promoting global public goods<br/>184 (4)<br/>Conclusions<br/>188 (1)<br/>Harvesting Carbon Sequestration Through Land-Use Change: A Way Out of Rural Poverty?<br/>189 <br/>Introduction<br/>189 <br/>Climate change and land use: causes and impacts<br/>189 <br/>Background on the issue of climate change<br/>189 <br/>The role of carbon sequestration through land use in mitigating climate change<br/>191 <br/>The Clean Development Mechanism and the potential for carbon payment programmes to stimulate land-use change<br/>192 <br/>Poverty and land use<br/>195 <br/>Forestry and types of land use affecting above-ground carbon sinks<br/>196 <br/>Land uses that affect soil-based carbon sinks<br/>196 <br/>Poor land-users as carbon credit suppliers<br/>197 <br/>Under what conditions would the poor be willing participants in carbon sequestration schemes?<br/>198 <br/>Under what conditions would the poor be competitive carbon sequestration providers?<br/>202 <br/>Carbon market design, transactions costs and poor land-users<br/>204 <br/>Conclusions<br/>208 <br/>Notes<br/>209 <br/>Annex table <br/>Countries and territories used for statistical purposes in this publication<br/>215 <br/>Time series for SOFA 2002 -- CD-ROM <br/>Instructions for use<br/>221 <br/>
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc Reports on current developments and issues in world agriculture. Monitors the global agricultural situation as well as the overall economic environment surrounding world agriculture. Presents and overview of the status of negotiations on agricultural trade following the launching of the World Trade Organization's new round of multilateral trade negotiations. Discusses how public goods such as agriculture, fisheries and forestry properly managed can provided benefits to large sections of people. Calls for increased international inflow of funds towards agriculture and rural areas, in order to promote globally the provision of these public goods
546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE
Language note eng
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term Food production
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term Agriculture economic aspects
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term Public goods economic aspects
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